Graffiti Essay Was an Insult To the Advertising Industry

Published: October 15, 1995

To the Editor:

The comparison of revenue-generating advertising with graffiti ("Graffiti a la Giuliani," Soapbox, Oct. 8) is an insult to the thousands of productive people who work in that field. The graffiti writer using the tag "Cost" is probably the worst graffiti vandal in the history of New York.

If the author of the essay is so concerned with his visual environment, he should monitor New York as Cost completes his 200 days of clean-up. If even one ugly, illegal Cost poster remains, it means the judge's sentence was too lenient. ROBERT DAVIDSON Upper East Side